Adherence to Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations on Low-Value Injury Care: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study |
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| Institution: | 1. Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Neurology and Trauma, CHU de Québec – Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;2. Cochrane Canada Francophone, CHU de Québec – Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;3. CHU de Québec Research Center, Hôpital de l''Enfant-Jésus, CHU de Québec – Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;4. Population Health and Optimal Health Practice Research Unit, Trauma - Emergency - Critical Care Medicine, CHU de Québec Research Center, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;5. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;6. Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine and Anesthesiology and Research Center, CHU de Québec – Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;7. Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS), Québec, QC, Canada;8. Department of Surgery, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada;9. Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada;10. Department of Critical Care Medicine - Calgary Zone, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;11. Internal Medicine Department, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada;12. Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, CISSS Chaudière-Appalaches (Secteur Alphonse-Desjardins), Sainte-Marie, QC, Canada;13. Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, on behalf of the Canadian Traumatic Brain Research Consortium |
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| Abstract: | ObjectivesLow-value clinical practices have been identified as one of the most important areas of excess healthcare spending. Nevertheless, there is a knowledge gap on the scale of this problem in injury care. We aimed to identify clinical practice guideline (CPG) recommendations pertaining to low-value injury care, estimate how frequently they are used in practice, and evaluate interhospital variations in their use.MethodsWe identified low-value clinical practices from internationally recognized CPGs. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from a Canadian trauma system (2014-2019) to calculate frequencies and assess interhospital variations.ResultsWe identified 29 low-value practices. Fourteen could be measured using trauma registry data. The 3 low-value clinical practices with the highest absolute and relative frequencies were computed tomography (CT) in adults with minor head injury (n = 5591, 24%), cervical spine CT (n = 2742, 31%), and whole-body CT in minor or single-system trauma (n = 530, 32%). We observed high interhospital variation for decompressive craniectomy in diffuse traumatic brain injury. Frequencies and interhospital variations were low for magnetic resonance imaging, intracranial pressure monitoring, inferior vena cava filter use, and surgical management of blunt abdominal injuries.ConclusionsWe observed evidence of poor adherence to CPG recommendations on low-value CT imaging and high practice variation for decompressive craniectomy. Results suggest that adherence to recommendations for the 10 other low-value practices is high. These data can be used to advance the research agenda on low-value injury care and inform the development of interventions targeting reductions in healthcare overuse in this population. |
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| Keywords: | guidelines injury low-value clinical practices quality of care trauma |
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